WTP Artist: Brian Wehrung

WTP Artist: Brian Wehrung

“The photographic medium doesn’t need to be about documentation.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Brian Wehrung graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with a degree in engineering. An entirely self-taught artist, he started pursuing photography as a hobby, only professionalizing in his fifties. His highly technical training as an engineer continues to influence…

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

March 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. ArtReview: Asia Since I have a friend going to Singapore for the month of March and into April,  I thought it appropriate to provide her with a…

WTP Artist: Yasuaki Okamoto

WTP Artist: Yasuaki Okamoto

“In each place I visited, I studied the local flora and fauna.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Yasuaki Okamoto is a New York–based artist. His paintings perform a kind of surrealism that incorporates animals, plants, everyday objects, landscape, and ethereal beings. His work is metaphorically based and inspired by his travels throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. …

WTP Artist: Stephen Althouse

WTP Artist: Stephen Althouse

“Cloth, string, and rope are such expressive materials for me.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor “Stephen Althouse (b. 1948) fabricated his early sculptures out of wood, leather, and forged metal to resemble farming implements. Later, rather than making sculptures from raw materials, he began collecting already made objects which he loosely assembled together to…

WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks

WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks

Short-story author and novelist Jacqueline Crooks Looking Back on 2016 Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born, British short-story writer whose main subjects are migration and Caribbean subcultures. Crooks is A Wasafiri Prize runner-up, and the first chapter of her novel Fire Rush was published by Granta (WW15, the Anthology of New Writing,…

WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom

WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom

The Deserted Toy Shop Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Susan Malmstrom attended California State University, Long Beach, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Printmaking. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine. Since 2011, she has been installing…

WTP Artist: Ryan Schroeder

WTP Artist: Ryan Schroeder

“Relics That Reflect Reality” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Ryan Schroeder received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries, including an upcoming exhibition, Ryan Schroeder: Recent Paintings at the Chenango Arts Council, Norwich, NY. He has…

WTP Writer: Charlotte Holmes

WTP Writer: Charlotte Holmes

Into the Grass Labyrinth Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Charlotte Holmes is a writer, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing. Her first book, Gifts and Other Stories, was published in 1994. Published by BkMk Press in 2016, her new collection of stories, The Grass Labyrinth, has been hailed as “a contemporary classic.” Holmes received…

WTP Artist: Ivette Cabrera

WTP Artist: Ivette Cabrera

Women Who Wear Crowns Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Ivette Cabrera is a Nicaraguan-born artist currently residing in Wynwood Miami, Florida. She migrated to the United States with her mother and siblings at the age of three to escape the Sandinista Revolution. She studied Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Art University and Marketing at…

WTP Artist: Kelly Zélen

WTP Artist: Kelly Zélen

Sculpting Hidden Emotions with Steel Wool Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Kelly Zélen received her BFA from the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA in 2005. Since then, her sculptures have been exhibited around Massachusetts and New York, including a solo show at Colo Colo Gallery in New Bedford.  Jaeger:…